Week4 Images in Action

I found this exercise to be quite interesting. It was strange for me to reflect on how I think, such an unnatural act. There is what I came up with; my mind had the tendency to search for patterns. How I broke it down was at #1 I started off with the most vertical color. From there I searched for other umbrellas that also had a red top. Once I identified them, in a turned to #2. This is where I looked for the colors positioned vertically in the top left umbrella. I went and matched all, any others, with the same colors in the same place. If there was a match I went to #3. From here I looked for the colors facing horizontally, in the inner portion, of the umbrella. When reading about the "perceptual speed" I found that I took the long route to finding which were the same. I think my mind tended to do this also for the reason that the symmetrical shapes/patterns and it using multiple feature channels, made it difficult for my eye to recognize the common/like umbrellas.

Here is the one that I am going to try to attempt to describe and show what she was thinking. Let me say though, she did start off looking at it in the same manner that I was. It was not working for her and she changer up her strategy because it was taking her to long to identify the matching umbrella. Her whole strategy was based on stepping back and looking at pattern as a whole. in illustration #1 she was just looking at the inner umbrella design and matching up what the design did, for her eye, with all of the other inner umbrella areas. From there illustration #2 is showing that she stepped back even farther and looked at the whole umbrella, as opposed to the inner part. That did not work for her, so She stepped even farther back and looked at all of the designs from a further distance and attempted to locate the common umbrellas from there. She ended up finding the patterns before I did. She was looking for "desired patterns' in the umbrella and trying to match them with others.

Here is exercise #2. Well the way that my mind looked at this was I sectioned off this picture by color. I forgot about the fact that it was a cat and focused on only color. I started off with #1, mainly because it contained more surface area. From there I counted out how many different triangles were had that specific color. I quickly went to color #2 and repeated this momentary rule for myself.  My eyes were using a "color" feature channel to help organize, in my mind,   what I was looking, in order to efficiently count these triangles. I was also using shape, and size's feature channels to help identify how my triangles there were. I find it interesting that my mind is constantly classifying things/objects. 

Here is my attempt to visually show you how my friend approached this challenge. She explained it to me that she started from the top and started scanning downward and counting every triangle that intersects with her visual pathway downward. She started at #1 and made her eyes scan down to number 12. I had a hard time identifying what or how this related to the reading. She was using her visual memory as she scanned down the page vigorously.  It states in our reading that the more "accurately you perceive the design" the better off you will be with remembering it. I believe this helped her as she scanned through. As she finished we found that she was off by 1 triangle.  Due to my longer, more accurate approach, I finished right after her but got the right amount of triangles.  This got me thinking to the correlation between speed vs accuracy. There has to be a link.